Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...former New York World. Twenty-seven hours later, at Wheaton, Ill., in the splendor of his 35-room Georgian mansion, death after a two-year illness came to Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, boss of the Chicago Tribune (circ. 892,058) and nominal boss of its Manhattan cousin, the Daily News (circ...
Into the Interior. Then, one day in 1939, her luck changed. The blind Princess Puangmas-Phaka Diskul. cousin of the future King Phumiphon, heard about her work, asked to be admitted to the school. Soon other pupils came, and by the time the war broke out. her school was so well established that the Japanese invaders were persuaded to let it continue. When the bombs began to fall on Bangkok she gathered her pupils together and moved the school into the interior. After V-J day she led her doughty band of students back to the capital and took...
...French presence" in both halves of divided Viet Nam: in the North, the French hope with declining prospects to wheedle a deal out of Communist Ho Chi Minh; in the South, they hope to replace Nationalist Diem with a man they feel they can trust -Bao Dai's cousin, Buu Hoi, 39, a leprosy expert who has not lived in Viet Nam for 20 years...
...underground of waiters, doormen and band members. But any photographer who is sent to the scene is met at the door of the nightclub and turned away by a royal detective. Once a news photographer got a picture of six-year-old Prince Charles on his way to a cousin's birthday party. But when the photographer's editor called the palace to get some caption material, he was brusquely informed that the color of the coat was a "private matter...
...wisest words in the dispute were spoken by crusty old Lord Vansittart, a distant cousin but no partisan of the hero. Lawrence's part in the Arabian revolt, wrote Vansittart, "was not titanic, but it was considerable. Mr. Aldington cannot reconcile-nor did Lawrence himself-faults and gifts, purple and dust, Dichtung und Wahrheit, bravery and inaccuracy, daring and brusquerie, delicacy and cheek...